Improve your recruitment process

Recruitment no longer needs to rely solely on the subjective process of interviews alone to determine who would be right for your team and business.

Now there are many other steps which can be introduced to support your hunches and address concerns raised in the face-to-face interview situation.

Assessment centre exercises are one of the processes that can provide you with an opportunity to effectively assess a potential employee’s performance. During the exercise they undertake an activity which requires the candidate to utilise competencies that they would be expected to perform on the job.

Other advantages of assessment centre exercises are that they can be used effectively with either one candidate or with large candidate pools. In addition, not only do they give you key information about a candidate’s suitability to a current role, they can also give great insight into the potential of a candidate once in your business.

The benefits

• Assessment centres can predict accurately how well a person is likely to perform in a new role
• Each assessment centre exercise is standardised, which means all candidates have the same opportunity to show their ability on the same basis
• When working with large groups during the recruitment process, we use multiple assessors in the assessment centres which ensures greater objectivity than interviews alone, which are normally carried out by just one or two interviewers
• Assessment centre exercises allow all candidates to demonstrate a range of abilities in realistic and relevant simulation exercises, giving employers a more rounded view of each individual
• All candidates are given an equal opportunity to succeed, irrespective of ethnicity, gender, age or disability
• One of the major benefits of assessment centre exercises is their ability to reduce the risk and costs of making poor hiring decisions
• They can be helpful in differentiating seemingly similar candidates.

What do Pod Consulting offer?

• An extensive range of exercises suitable for all candidates and roles, from graduates, administrators to senior executives, testing competencies and skills specific to the role that you are recruiting, with an exercise relevant to your industry
• We use tools created by both PreVisor and A&DC which are proven to be effective, relevant and reliable
• As well as using the tools for selection we can also integrate assessment centre exercises into programmes to retain and develop employees within your business

To see examples of exercises relevant to a role within your business, please contact us to discuss. We would be happy to help you and show you suitable options or create another exercise specific to your requirements.

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